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Friday, June 21, 2013

In Media World, only Israel Blocks Peace Process

by Leo Rennert

One
of the great ironies about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that
Palestinians can deliver multiple blows to serious prospects for peace,
but it's Israel that gets singled out in mainstream media coverage as
the only culprit standing in the way of movement toward a peace deal.

Actually,
there's more than ample evidence of Palestinian responsibility for the
stalemate. It just doesn't get reported in papers like the Washington Post.

Of this more later, but first a bit of history, also ignored by the Post.
For starters, Israel has been ready for years to engage in peace talks
without any preconditions by either side -- a position also espoused by
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the Obama administration. Hamas,
however, screams treason if Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas dared
take any step toward negotiations. Not that Abbas, on his own hook,
would really move in that direction. He has for years insisted on huge,
one-sided Israeli concessions -- a building freeze in East Jerusalem and
the West Bank, release of Palestinian terrorist prisoners -- as
preconditions for talks, knowing full well that's a nonstarter.

Bottom
line: In the eyes of any objective observers, it's become clear that
Abbas -- not Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- is the real
obstacle to getting to the negotiating table. Yet, in the face of this
reality, mainstream media just yawn and go silent.

As
for the basic framework for a peace deal, Netanyahu repeatedly has made
clear his support for a two-state solution -- again in tandem with the
White House. However, the Palestinians -- both Hamas and Abbas's Fatah
party -- favor an ultimate one-state solution -- Palestinian rule from
the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, thus erasing the Jewish state
altogether.

Hamas
makes no bones that this is its basic agenda. Abbas, who pretends to be
a two-stater to keep U.S. and European funding, in reality also favors
total Palestinian rule from the river to the sea. He would accomplish
this by insisting on an absolute "right of return" to Israel of millions
of Palestinian refugees and their descendants. The Arab League, in its
pseudo-peace plan, takes the same route to end Jewish sovereignty.

Yet,
Western correspondents generally ignore this basic Palestinian
obstruction to a realistic peace. Instead, they blame Israel -- and only
Israel.

The
lead paragraph reads as follows: "As the United States seeks to revive
Middle East peace talks, the coalition government of Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become a babel of voices whose members
issue contradictory statements, sometimes hourly, declaring that
negotiations with the Palestinians are: A. On track. B. Dead. C.
Baloney."

The
article goes on to cite some members of Netanyahu's coalition who,
having waited in vain for years for the Palestinians to enter
negotiations, now opine that a two-state solution is not in the offing
and and if it ever came to fruition, they would vote against it. But not
Netanyahu, who remains firmly committed to his two-state agenda.

Defections from the two-state stance in a governing coalition of five different parties is not exactly surprising. But the Post fails to give readers a full context, including the far graver Palestinian sabotage of the two-state agenda.

Instead,
Booth and Eglash uncritically tell readers with a straight face that
Palestinian officials from Abbas on down "expressed alarm" about
two-state opposition by some Israeli cabinet members -- "The Palestine
Liberation Organization blasted the disunity in the Israeli government."

Which is rich, when you think about it. Palestinian crocodile tears taken at face value in the pages of the Washington Post.

Leo Rennert is a former White House correspondent and Washington bureau chief of McClatchy Newspapers

Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/06/in_media_world_only_israel_blocks_peace_process.htmlCopyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.